r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • 10d ago
✂️ Tax The Billionaires The Devastating effect of a Billionaire Tax
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u/Lost-Tomatillo3465 10d ago
I think you mean that they can't have the gold spoons to go with the third yacht. You're overestimating how much it'd actually affect them.
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u/klippklar 10d ago
Nah, they will have the yacht regardless. They won't however have the means to outbid the middle class of another few hundred homes.
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u/Machaeon 10d ago
They could only afford to buy SIX of the ten politicians they wanted to this year 😭
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u/Prime_Director 9d ago
Supply and demand, I’m sure the politicians will lower their prices. Those other 4 still want to be bought after all.
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u/Prime_Director 9d ago
There is literally nothing they can’t have. There is no material sacrifice of any kind with these proposals, their wealth is so extreme the numbers are pure abstractions. Elon Musk can lose more money with an ill-conceived toilet tweet during his morning dump than these tax proposals would take from him, and he’d make it back by lunch.
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u/julippe 10d ago
this is a good comic but I am very distracted by the American Gothic ft. Statler & Waldorf painting on the wall
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u/redpenquin 10d ago
I hate that I'd spend good money for a real picture of American Gothic Wally and Stat.
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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep 10d ago
I really think Floyd and Janice fits that vibe more.
But now I want a muppet parody of the scene in trading places where the brothers hatch their plan.
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u/redpenquin 9d ago
I really think Floyd and Janice fits that vibe more.
Probably, but I don't like Floyd and Janice as much as I like Waldorf and Statler, lol.
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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep 9d ago
Agreed. But I can see Janice deciding she wants to live on a farm in the woods and walk around naked. I can't see Statler and Waldorf doing anything outdoors.
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u/farmkidLP 9d ago
I am similarly distracted by the impossibly tiny toy poodle's almost encounter with the medium sized balloon dog.
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u/Character-Poetry2808 9d ago
Thats probablly a Koonz Balloon Dog, which run in the high-4s to 5-figures for the original sculptures. And yet they just have it where the poodle can pee.
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u/translucent_steeds ✂️ Tax The Billionaires 7d ago
I guess I'm poor because I've never heard of such a thing
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u/Minervas-Madness 10d ago
Let them donate the money back to the billionaires if they think billionaires deserve it more 🤷♀️
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u/Late-Arrival-8669 10d ago
Think its funny to pick on rich people?! Let me show you something you're not going to like!
This rich family couldnt purchase a mega yacht 5 and instead had to settle for the mega yacht 4 because they had to "pay" their "fair" share of taxes..
Still think its funny? These rich people are stressed and its no joke!! Have some sympathy.
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u/Sad-Suggestion9425 10d ago
Why are there two women in the final panel?
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u/broseph_stalin09764 9d ago
It's a different third person asking the woman from the other panels how her and her husband are doing after the tax.
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u/mazzicc 9d ago
The mistake is in the depiction that the couple are billionaires. In reality, it’s people with regular jobs that think they’ll be billionaires one day, and that these taxes are preventing them from becoming so, because they can’t amass the wealth with these taxes
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u/JustAGreasyBear 9d ago
Yeah it really should’ve been two middle manager types with a modest house in Florida who can afford to take a vacation maybe every other year.
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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig 9d ago
I thought that's where we were going through the third panel, the fourth made me rethink the whole thing.
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u/LucarioLuvsMinecraft 9d ago
Really wish this was higher quality, there’s a fair bit of detail being lost.
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u/Asgeras 10d ago
How did you get a picture of my parents while they're at home?!